Two Days After Election, Fox News Pulls In More Viewers Than CNN and MSNBC Combined

During Election Night, both Fox News and CNN had a lot to crow about, at least ratings-wise. CNN led the way with its primetime coverage, pulling in 13.3 million viewers, topping Fox News’ 12.2 million. For the entire night, Fox led the way with an average of 12.2 million compared to CNN’s 11.2 million.

However, with results in and Donald Trump declared the victor, Fox News has pushed far and ahead of its competitors when it comes to drawing eyeballs.

On Thursday, Fox News outdrew CNN and MSNBC in both total day coverage and primetime programming. In fact, it wasn’t even close.

For primetime, Fox brought in an average of 4.78 million viewers, compared to 1.64 million for CNN and 1.44 million for MSNBC. Fox News nearly doubled up the combined 8-11 PM viewership of its two competitors.

As far as total day, Fox was well on top, pulling in an average of 2.65 viewers compared to 1.24 million for CNN and 796,000 for MSNBC. Again, Fox News’ viewership was more than CNN’s and MSNBC’s combined.

[image via Fox News/CNN/MSNBC]

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